Thu, 06 Aug 2009
Lama Is Fine
I sometimes forget the first rule of the Internet, which is to never joke about anything, because someone will not get the joke. Last week I joked about Lama Phurbu Tashi almost living out of a dumpster. Some people expressed concern about Lama's well being, and I don't blame them, for they were genuinely concerned. But I was only joking.
Here is the longer story of what happened. Sometime before I knew Lama, he met Matt, who offered Lama a space behind his store for a practice center and also offered Lama a room in his house. Lama was already living in Karen's old house, but moved into Matt's place because it was close to the center and he could ride his bike over on the evenings he taught there. Later, Matt had second thoughts about the help he was giving Lama. He's Catholic, and even though he liked and was impressed by Lama, the idea that he was helping to establish a center of another religion started to bother him and he asked Lama to move out. So Lama moved back with Karen into her new house. At no time was Lama in danger of being cast out into the cold. He is well housed, well fed, and wll cared for by the members of our small group. Lama deserves a larger group of students than we currently have, simply because he could benefit more. But we're still working on that.
